Shelby's spent years reading thousands of Intel-related reports. I would think he has some basis for saying something is largely releasable. Even if he's inexplicably wildly off the mark, surely there's 50 percent, 40 percent, a single word - about Saudi Arabia and 9-11 that the American people are adult enough to hear.
Instead we're treated to Crawford photo ops with House of Saud "princes" and to pabulum about the KSA being an ally in the WOT.
BTW- There's a thread somewhere on FR today about a Saudi diplomat mixing it up with Mohammad Atta's Hamburg terror cell.
Saudi Arabia's relationship with Islamic terror is being handled like China's relationship with Taiwan. In either case, shortsighted fools have painted themselves into a corner, and it's up to us to keep the lid on. We could simply declare the ugly truth to the world, and damn the consequences. This would only increase our workload and complicate our other efforts.
Also, forcing our own hand would be counterproductive. Just as China knows deep down what the score is on Taiwan, Saudi Arabia knows exactly how we feel about Islamic terror. Some battles are best fought behind closed doors.
Shelby's spent years reading thousands of Intel-related reports. I would think he has some basis for saying something is largely releasable. Even if he's inexplicably wildly off the mark, surely there's 50 percent, 40 percent, a single word - about Saudi Arabia and 9-11 that the American people are adult enough to hear.
Shelby reading thousands of intel reports -- nope. Shelby is a politician and nothing more.
Back in early 1999, Senator Shelby was the first Senate Republican to come out against an impeachment trial. He went on all the news shows and said many negative things about impeachment including something like the following; 10 or 15 Republican Senators will not vote for a perjury conviction.
One of my first posts to FR was a criticism of that stupid Shelby remark.
Well it was total BS and it was a "push" statement. A push statement similar to a "push poll" is a statement designed to push the news in a certain direction. It's not a statement designed to reflect the actual reality. Anyway, several weeks later, only 3 R senators voted against impeachment for purjury. Shelby and his little push statement were wrong.
Now fast-forward to several months back and here is Shelby again doing the bidding for the rats on the weekend network news shows and here is Shelby again helping out the rats and our global enemies by making this little BS "push" statement and insinuating that the president is protecting King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah from incriminating information. And how do we know this besides Shelby telling us this is so? We know this because the NY Times and the WP post are giving us unnamed sources that are sayign so. What BS!
Instead we're treated to Crawford photo ops with House of Saud "princes" and to pabulum about the KSA being an ally in the WOT.
You have no clue what was said at the Crawford meetings and you believe exactly what the WP and the NY Times want you to believe.
Most likely instead a deal was struck at that time. We do damage to Al-Qaeda and OBL and we remove Saddam from power and we start and Pali-Israeli roadmap. In return, they would then be in the position to start cracking terrorist heads in S.A.
BTW- There's a thread somewhere on FR today about a Saudi diplomat mixing it up with Mohammad Atta's Hamburg terror cell.
YOu would have to link me to that thread. I do know that there was wide reports of the Atta Hamberg cell using false ID's, claiming to be relatives of S.A. diplomats.